CHP officers consistently report the worst part of their job is coming onto a scene where a young person has needlessly lost his or her life and subsequently having to ring a doorbell to tell parents that they will never again see their child alive.

The devastating impact of these fatal crashes on the teens involved, their families, communities, law enforcement officers, and first responders, motivated the CAHP to work with one of its long-time partners, California Casualty, and later, the California Teachers Association (CTA) to create a powerful intervention designed to alter these grim statistics.

In mid-2007, these three organizations formed a unique partnership to create the 501 (c)(3) charitable organization that is now known as Impact Teen Drivers. Impact Teen Drivers was organized for the purpose of providing awareness and education to teenagers, their parents, and community members about all facets of responsible driving, with the goal of reducing the number of injuries and deaths suffered by teens as a result of distracted driving and poor decision making.